So I keep an eye on craigslist for good deals, and a couple days ago I got an awesome deal for a new, never used, still has the tags on it 50 qt igloo cooler for $10!! So I'm going to use that for my dry ice/ frozen food and get another one for drinks and non-frozen stuff.

Milayna wrote:So I keep an eye on craigslist for good deals, and a couple days ago I got an awesome deal for a new, never used, still has the tags on it 50 qt igloo cooler for $10!! So I'm going to use that for my dry ice/ frozen food and get another one for drinks and non-frozen stuff.

Great scores, Mademoiselles . . .

What is it with cooler luck? I got my cooler free in the lobby of my apartment building two years ago. Bleached the heck out of it in case it'd been toting black market kidneys, and I was good to go!

*** 2017 Survival Guide ***"I must've lost it when I was twerking at the trash fence." -- BBadger

VultureChow wrote:So I've been off here for a while. Just too freakin busy with work and family issues. But I've kept my hands busy. My goal is 100 scarves for gifts next year. Boas, warm scarves etc. I'm up to 25 so far. Here's a sampling of the boa colors. Just need to stitch in the ends.

Those are looking great! I'm inspired!

I'm usually a yarn/knitting snob--merino and silk, please!--but I saw that this purple sparkle yarn was on sale for almost half off and ordered enough to make a shrug/scarf and maybe ruffle-yarn-bomb my bike too

Riv wrote:I'm usually a yarn/knitting snob--merino and silk, please!--but I saw that this purple sparkle yarn was on sale for almost half off and ordered enough to make a shrug/scarf and maybe ruffle-yarn-bomb my bike too

Just be sure to bang your first creation against a wall, hard, to make sure it's playa ready.

The Lady with a Lamprey

"The powerful are exploiting people, art and ideas, and this leads to us plebes debating how to best ration ice.Man, no wonder they always win....." Lonesomebri

theCryptofishist wrote:Just be sure to bang your first creation against a wall, hard, to make sure it's playa ready.

Yep--I won't bring anything to the playa that doesn't survive beta testing without mooping! My main curiosities are: do the ends shed, and if so how can I seal them; how easily does it snag, and what happens if/when it does (do the individual strands shed, or stay bound to one of the edges?). We'll see once it gets here.

Hit a going out of business sale at a wine cellar, got 750 worth of pretty decent wines for $300. Nice assortment of sweet/dry red/white. Should be enough for our public hours at Dye with Dignity. Woot! Probably could have waited and gotten a bigger discount in a couple weeks, but I had quite a pick of selection today so I went for it.

When the only tool you got is a hammer, every problem looks like a hippie.

Mmmmmm I love the smell of Burning Man - Token

Getting overly dramatic about the ticket sale process is so 2012. - Maladroit

Found some ear muffs for my hearing aids.. They keep the ears warm and dampers sound.. The insulation could be removed to use them on the playa..People here have asked about ear protection..These are Gorgonz ear warmers from BiMart for $9+.. Work well for leaf blowing, garden tractor and shop.. They fit behind the neck and are quit comfortable..

ordered 3 led lanterns, ratchet straps today. When tom gets up from his nap we are going to go get our stuff to make the evap pond, check out the christmas light clearance and get 20 of those solar path lights. they are cristmas looking but with a bit of paint they will look normal. cant beat $1 each!

maladroit- Burning Man is like a second job, except you pay to work there.Burning Man is just the pre party for exodus! - fellow burner during exodus

I got a couple of packages of these stakes at 80% off. They are 7.5 inches long, and were sold for staking out inflatable holiday yard monstrosities. I thought they were cheap enough to take up some space in my kit for a while, and might come in handy. a gator grip on a power drill would make short work of it

lucky420 wrote:got the giraffe suit today. but i will wear it in the default world too.

I've got the skunk, giraffe and had the Godzilla like yours Antim but it was lifted at BRC

Boo on the thief!

We have a little pop up shop at the mall with all sorts of random sparkly gifts and crap; they have a rack of adult jammies. I breifly considered the rainbow unicorn, but Gojira rules. No way could I make a Godzilla suit myself for the price. Larry has skeleton footie jammies (with a heart), but he got his at Halloween on the half price sales. Spencer's has all sorts of adult footie jammies just now, including a sock monkey. I think Larry would make an excellent monkey!

it is pretty sturdy pole wise. We are of corse going to use re bar to stake it. but i like it cause it has mesh on the top so it wont turn into a kite i will say if you plan on doing a solar shower with it, i hope you are short cause even though the tent is 7'2" with the gravity fed bag you have to almost get on your knees to be able to use it on your head. We are getting a hot water on demand system that has a pump so we wont have that issue unless the pump goes out.

maladroit- Burning Man is like a second job, except you pay to work there.Burning Man is just the pre party for exodus! - fellow burner during exodus

tattoogoddess wrote:it is pretty sturdy pole wise. We are of corse going to use re bar to stake it. but i like it cause it has mesh on the top so it wont turn into a kite i will say if you plan on doing a solar shower with it, i hope you are short cause even though the tent is 7'2" with the gravity fed bag you have to almost get on your knees to be able to use it on your head. We are getting a hot water on demand system that has a pump so we wont have that issue unless the pump goes out.

My Coleman Demand water heater will not rise the water for a shower..I have a Stanport Shower pump.. I run the heated water into a bucket and pump it up to shower level.. The hotter you want the water the slower the flow. The water has to stay in the heater longer to make it hotter.. I still takes more water than I want to carry to TTITD ..